"The garden of Eden is darkening, and darkness will devour everything."

In the science fiction trisomy, it describes the dark time when the earth is going to the end. But fortunately, at the end of the novel, there is a glimmer of hope for people: to move the last human left on the earth to Australia. Australia has become the last place of captivity for human beings. However, the reality is a little ironic. In the past four months, uncontrolled wildfires have been raging on the land of Australia. The horror pictures in disaster movies often happen.

Since September 2019, the national wildfire in Australia has lasted for more than four months, and the next situation is likely to be worse: usually, the local temperature peak will be in January and February, so when the fire will end is still unknown.

Accrding to the latest statistics, Australia has 10.3 million hectares of fire area nationwide. By the time it reaches 6 million hectares, it's twice the burned area of Brazil's Amazon rainforest fire in 2019 and six times the area of California's wildfires in 2018.

The latest statement from the World Wide Fund for nature (WWF) is even more distressing: to date, bushfires in Australia have killed about 1.25 billion animals, double the previous 500 million.

Not only that, but the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently pointed out that smoke from the fire had passed through South America, making the local sky gray. It is said that the smoke has passed through half of the earth on January 8. The smoke will fly around the earth at least once. Once it enters the stratosphere, it will have an impact on the global atmospheric conditions.

Escape: "to live is a miracle"

To alleviate the drought, authorities in South Australia decided to focus on killing about 10000 camels in five days from January 8. The reason: they drink too much water and exhaust too much gas.

As soon as the news came out, the public shouted, "do you want camels to carry the pot for this fire?"

The survey found that as an invasive species, more than 1.2 million camels have been killed on a large scale in Australia every year because of "occupying" the living space of human beings. But this time, the reason given by the government is not because of the impact on local people's lives, but because these camels are looking for water and drink, farting too much every year, which will cause climate warming.

Camels have nowhere to escape, and few animals can escape in this fire.

On the Internet, a kangaroo baby tried to escape from the wildfire through the iron net but was swallowed up. When he died, his hands were still standing around him, making countless people cry. In the video, a koala is obviously exhausted. It can't run. Sitting there, the fire is burning on it

"Who will save them?" Many people pray in heartbreak. Others shared and wrote: "now, the world should take climate change and the mass extinction of animals seriously."

The mountain fire has become the "talisman" of animals and plants. The Australian environment minister has warned recently that the death toll of koalas is expected to exceed 20000 and that koalas could become endangered.

A large number of iconic species such as flying gliders, cockatoos and honeyeaters, as well as a large number of precious vegetation, are disappearing. The title of "species paradise" in Australia may not be worthy of its name.

The mountain fire also brings great psychological trauma to human beings. On January 11 local time, the death toll rose to 28. Residents and tourists in the affected areas are looking for ways to escape or hide, with a sharp decline in supplies, with some calling them "refugees in their own countries".

The Australian Emergency Management Agency (EMA), which is responsible for disaster and emergency response, has temporarily closed its headquarters in Canberra, and key staff will move to other places to work. At 9 a.m. on January 6, Canberra's air quality index (AQI) is said to be the worst of the world's major cities.

As of the afternoon of January 12, Beijing time, there were 111 wildfires in New South Wales, 40 of which were still uncontrolled.

"Every living life is a miracle." In the face of this unprecedented fire, more and more people leave a message on the Internet: awe of nature.

Fire control: "could have done better"

The fire burned the heart, and the "internal fire" finally burned on Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. "There are things I should have dealt with better." On January 12, Morrison, a Buddhist firefighter, finally admitted that he had made mistakes in dealing with the mountain fire crisis.

Aad people don't buy it. Morrison became the object of public criticism.

At the end of last year, just when Australia declared a state of emergency, Morrison even dragged his family to Hawaii for Christmas. What's more, Morrison insisted on setting off fireworks across the country despite the petitions of 260000 people, and claimed that the performance had been prepared for more than one year and the budget had been spent. It's better to use the influence of fireworks across the year to raise money for the refugees.

While fighting the fire, fireworks are on display; while saving koala, he is shooting camels.

According to the latest Australian News poll released on January 13, 59% of the respondents were not satisfied with Morrison's performance in response to the forest fire, and Morrison's support rate fell sharply.

The truth may not be what Morrison said. Data shows that Australia's population accounts for about 0.3% of the world's total population, but its greenhouse gas emissions have accounted for 1.3% of the world's total, making it one of the countries with the highest per capita greenhouse gas emissions.

In December 2019, a 2020 climate change response index report jointly published by three climate change research think tanks pointed out that Australia's climate policy ranked the sixth from the bottom among 57 countries.

Looking back at Australia's commitment at the UN climate change conference in 2015, they proposed that by 2030, Australia's greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced from 2005 levels by 26% to 28%. However, due to the continuous expansion of energy mining and other reasons, Australia's greenhouse gas emissions have increased for the fourth consecutive year since 2014.

Australia's response to climate change was not positive until 2007, when it signed the Kyoto protocol. Although the Paris agreement was officially signed in 2016, the Australian government's initiatives on climate change in recent years run counter to the Paris agreement. At the United Nations climate change summit held in katowitz, Poland, the Australian government not only supported the position of four oil producing countries such as the United States in disguise in a silent way against the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on climate change (IPCC), but also stood in the open for the promotion of the coal industry in the United States.

For the public, the continuous wildfire in Australia has been able to recognize the extreme high temperature in the context of global warming, which has triggered extreme drought and caused extreme wildfires.

On the eve of the 25th UN climate change conference last year, the UN has warned the world that there is not much time left for human beings. However, it seems that not many people really listen. There are even "in the context of economic recession and increasingly acute social contradictions, it is not appropriate and doomed to fail to talk about environmental protection and carbon emissions", but is it true?

It is reported that about 350 million tons of carbon dioxide have been released in the three months of the fire. Experts say it will take a century or more to absorb the carbon dioxide.

In the past decade, global climate change has been affecting tens of thousands of people. Ten years ago, how could we think that the warming of the ocean would cause the global coral white change? The coral naked tailed rat died out due to the rising sea level, becoming the first mammal extinction caused by climate change. And this scene has happened quietly.

It is not known when the Australian wildfire will be eliminated, but it is certain that this unprecedented mountain fire will become the focus of the UN climate change conference in 2020. At that time, in the face of climate change, will we still choose to "watch the fire from the other side" or stop pretending to sleep and take action? The fire may enlighten people.

Australian Environment Minister Susan Lee said in an interview recently that the government has allocated about $35 million to restore animal habitats, support scientists, ecologists and social organizations in environmental protection, including making long-term plans for environmental restoration.

Half of the money will go to national nature reserves, hospitals and zoos, "ready to do everything possible to restore populations and species," and the other half will be managed by Sally boks, the Australian Commissioner for endangered species.

Susan said the long-term recovery plan will first map the disaster area, send food to the surviving animals, and develop an action plan to protect them from predators.

Recently, Matt Keene, Minister of energy and environment of New South Wales, announced a rescue operation. On January 11, about 2200kg of carrots and sweet potatoes were airdropped in some national parks of New South Wales, mainly for feeding local rock kangaroos.

Source: China Environmental News